A few have suggested it, might as well test the waters. The idea is to give people who haven't read the books a safe place to talk about the show.

A few quick ground rules:

No Spoilers!!!!! for upcoming episodes.

Larger Song of Ice and Fire discussion should be limited to the other thread although I think a tiny bit of book delving to fill in holes should be okay (example of this would be talking about Catelyn and her treatment of the wolves in the novel, which was alluded to on TV but never really made clear...)

Everything that happened that week is fair game once an episode airs. So if you don't watch on Sunday night, I'd stay outta here until you do...

Hell, I've read the books and I'm not catching everything while I'm watching...

I'm actually keeping all the episodes on my DVR, which is something I almost never do, so I can watch them in sequence later. I have a feeling I'll catch things I missed the first time.

Ditto.

I remember the words you mention of Pycelle in the small council, but don't remember seeing him there and realizing it was him, though there isn't anyone else it could have been. Not sure of conversations that they had though, will have to listen closer when I re-watch.

Putting this one in this thread for fear of being spoiled in the other one.

When Arya was training with Syrio at the end and Ned was watching you could hear swords clashing and a look of impending doom on Ned's face. I thought it was sort of a weird way to end the episode. I wonder what's going to happen.

Putting this one in this thread for fear of being spoiled in the other one.

When Arya was training with Syrio at the end and Ned was watching you could hear swords clashing and a look of impending doom on Ned's face. I thought it was sort of a weird way to end the episode. I wonder what's going to happen.

Said the same thing to my wife. Was he thinking of a fight long gone or one yet to happen?

I think it played in with Ned telling Arya earlier in the episode that they are in a dangerous place and need to stick together. In that last scene, he saw Arya practicing and having a great time but he couldn't help but think about the fact that he sees danger lurking, thus the clash of real swords in his head instead of the click-clack of the wooden training swords.